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Creating strong healthcare IT teams, according to Dr. Jonathan Sternlieb, Epic Emeritus CMIO, comes from being willing to learn from others and from building communication, trust and respect with colleagues.
Rochester Regional Health's Dr. Everett Weiss says it is essential that everyone in your organization understands "what is our why" for using the technology, how it is helping them work more efficiently and how it is good for patients.
Jessica Potts, workforce strategy and operations director at SSM Health, says scheduling and staffing technologies are changing nurse managers' day-to-day tasks.
According to Dr. R. Ryan Sadeghian, healthcare AI thrives best on small, steady successes in areas like ambient documentation where clinician trust and workflow fit matter more than having the latest model.
Implementing AI successfully across healthcare organizations requires strategic problem selection and risk management. HIMSS' maturity models can guide leaders on their journey to adopting the right AI solutions.
According to Dr. David K. Butler, Epic emeritus CMIO and clinical informatics leader at Calyx Partners, securing buy-in from clinicians and staff, tracking training and budgeting for post-go-live optimization are essential for lasting EHR adoption.
Columbia University Associate Dean of AI Stephen Ferrara, who is past president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, says getting buy-in requires building AI literacy and educating nurses on "what AI can do, and what it can't".
Wooster Community Hospital Health System CIO Eric Gasser, RN, discusses ways that IT leaders can more effectively work with nurses and help solve major challenges.
Kenrick Cato, nurse scientist, pediatric data and analytics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, says that nurses are excited about AI but are cautious and while they want help from AI, they don't want AI to do their job.
The struggle is that "you can't just plop something in the middle of a system even though it has good effectiveness and expect people to change their behavior or trust it," says Dr. Cole Zanetti at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine.